Depression and ART Adherence in HIV+ Latinos

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Depressive Symptoms, HIV Infections

In brief

The current HIV treatment adherence project was designed to adapt culturally and then pilot test an empirically supported cognitive-behavioral therapy program for adherence and symptoms of depression (CBT-AD)with HIV+ Latinos living on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01411839

Run by

University of Washington

People needed

40

Starts

2008-07-01

Expected to finish

2012-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-03-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• HIV+ participants (a) currently receiving HIV care at La Fe CARE Center (study site);
• 18 years of age or older;
• Latino (i.e., self-identified as being of Mexican heritage);
• English- or Spanish-speaking
• capable of giving informed consent;
• currently on a prescribed antiretroviral regimen;
• suboptimally adherent (i.e., demonstrated either by a VL load taken in the last 12 months that is above the undetectable threshold of 50 mL copies or self-reporting a missed dose in the last two weeks);
• exhibiting some depressive symptomatology (i.e., scoring on the Beck Depression Inventory-1A 10 or above), and (i) male or female (including transgender Female-to-Male and Male-To-Female.

You may not qualify if…

• actively psychotic or so cognitively impaired that they cannot participate,
• so physically ill as to be unable to come to the clinic to participate in the intervention, OR
• Report The use of crack, cocaine, heroin, OR methamphetamines to any extent in the past 40 days.
• Those who are planning on being away from the area for any extended period during the study (as in the case of seasonal workers) or whom
• have household members already enrolled in the study will also be excluded. We did choose to restrict study eligibility to individuals of Mexican descent.

Where it is running

• Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe CARE Center — El Paso, Texas, United States

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